Elephant Stoned - News Archive

Ian And Dom Joly get up to some monkey business..Again.

Reported on Ian Brown Online :

Ian Brown reunited with Dom Joly last night on the TV comic's forthcoming series, "This Is Dom Joly". Ian and band performed 2 songs live in the studio, "Gravy Train" and "FEAR", and the programme is set to go out on BBC in September 2002.
After the show, Ian "borrowed" 20 men in monkey suits from Dom Joly and gatecrashed the Top Of The Pops star bar aftershow party. Ian entered the party with aforementioned monkeys, they all danced for 2 minutes and promptly left, leaving a bewildered bar full of stars who had just appeared on Top Of The Pops. Previously, Dom Joly had directed the video for "Golden Gaze" in his Trigger Happy TV guise, and Trigger Happy also filmed footage at Ian's Hammersmith Palais show in April 2000. Later, at Dom Joly's party, Ian was quoted as saying "I never should have called that first album Unfinished Monkey Business..."

Ian performance in Germany is webcast.

Ian played two festivals over the weekend in Germany, the second of which from the Rock Am Ring festival was broadcasted ( well, 20 mins of it were ) over the internet. Ian also took part in a webchat, where questions were many, but answers were very few..! I managed to get a request through for Ian to smile at the cam for a pic..!

Click here to see it.

The Rock Am Ring show was aired on German TV, and is due to be aired again from 7th to 8th of July.

Details here:

http://www.rockpalast.de/termine.html

Next Single and live video/DVD details from Retaliate First.

News on the Ian Brown Website says the next single will be an EP release..

Ian is working on some remix ideas for a Remix Of The Spheres EP, with Gravy Train being the lead track. There will also be some live material ("Concerts Of The Spheres") included in the EP release in advance of a full DVD/video concert release later this year. At the moment, Ian is searching throught the live tapes from the tour and looking at the video footage. UNKLE are at the moment working on a remix of FEAR, and the Manic Street Preachers are also doing a track.

Gravy Train : Next single for Ian Brown?

According to Jo Whiley, Ian's next single will be Gravy Train, contrary to reports that Shadow Of A Saint would be next. The single will have a different version to the album version, and will be backed with two new songs.

Ian Brown webchat and live concert stream.

www.rockpalast.de are planning to show the full Ian Brown set at the Rock Am Ring festival live via their website on Sunday 19th may. During the festival, Ian will be online chatting at the site.

Check out the homepage and the webchat page here.

Stone Roses documentary scheduled for June.

June 5th is the date the documentary about The Stone roses ( Produced by John Robb ) will be aired on UK cable channel UK Play. Much thanks to Kevin Challenger from The Roses Mailing List for the info.

Friday June 7th 23.10
Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll: Stone Roses

Series telling the real stories behind the careers of music megastars.

This episode looks at the inside story of the Stone Roses, the band that
transformed the music scene of the early 90s.

Fuji Rock Festival for Ian, and an extra Germany date.

Ian Brown's site has confirmed that Ian is to play the Fuji Rock Festival 2002 in Japan once again.
Ian Brown will headline the Red Marquee on Sunday July 28th.
Other bands appearing in support are Doves, The Electric Soft Parade & The Vines.

On August 9th Ian will play the Haldern Festival, Germany. The festival also has appearances from Sigur Ros, Charlatans & Doves.

New Aziz Dates.

As promised, Aziz will hit the road again after the next leg of Ian Brown dates, supporting Blackburn's excellent The Burn on some dates of their tour.

May 26 Northampton Soundhaus
May 27 Wolverhampton Little Civic
May 28 London Cargo
May 29 Manchester Band On The Wall ( Supporting The Burn )
May 31 Bristol Louisiana
June 1 Liverpool University Stanley Theatre
June 2 Glasgow King Tuts ( Supporting The Burn )
June 3 Middlesborough Music Live Evening TBC
June 4 Leeds Rocket TBC
June 5 Blackburn King Georges Hall ( Supporting The Burn )

Stone roses Mojo Magazine feature : On Sale Now.

The much touted Mojo magazine article is in this months ( May Issue ) magazine, out in the shops from April 15th. The article spans over 15 pages, and has a few new photographs, taken from friends personal photo collections. Interesting enough a read, and definately something any self respecting Roses fan should have, but no amazing revelations are to be had, but that said, there are a handful of diamond quotes from the lads.

A definate must have.

Stone Roses documentary.

A brief conversation with myself and John Robb revealed the documentary on The Stone Roses ( produced by John himself ) is finished, and is due to be aired on cable channel UK Play very soon. John is very pleased with the program, and thinks we will be too. In his words,  " It's a good 'un .."

More festival dates for Ian..Glastonbury at last..!!!

The Ian Brown Website has announced confirmation of :

T In The Park Scotland - Sunday July 14th
V2002 - August 17 and 18 at Hylands Park, Essex and Weston Park, Staffordshire England respectively.
Glastonbury Festival, England - , Sat 29th June, Pyramid stage 5pm.
Witnness Festival Fairyhouse Racecourse, Ireland - July 13th.
Move Festival, Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester England - Friday July 12th

European Dates announced for Ian.

APRIL

22nd Belgium Brussels - The Botanique Orangieies
23rd Holland Rotterdam - Rotown
24th Holland Amsterdam - Melkweg Max (Milky Way)

MAY

17th Rock Im Park festival, Nurburgring, Nurburg, Germany
18th May Berlin Club venue TBC
19th Rock AM Ring festival, Frankenstadion Nurnberg, Nurnberg, Germany

John Squire news.

A message left on Hobbit's Stone Roses Heaven message board tells of an imminent return from John.

The beard has gone, and John is going to be singing in his next project with which he's is currently looing for a record deal for.
S' the real deal folks.

Ian Brown announces European dates and Festivals.

News on the Ian Brown website is that T In The Park has been confirmed, 14th July. More dates to be added, and Glastonbury's looking favourite..

Dates in Belgium, Holland and Germany are booked with more to be added soon.
( Amsterdam anyone ?? )
Keep your eyes on Ian's site for more details.

Ian Brown tour is a huge success.

Selling out almost every venue, Ian's dates have been accepted well by the fans. Review's all over the message boards tell of Ian's voice being better than ever..Ian's enjoying the gigs on this tour for sure. Cheeky snippets of Fools Gold, and huge interaction with the crowd have left us all satisfied to say the least.

New Ian Brown single, Whispers Released.

The second single from Ian Brown's Music Of The Spheres, Whispers is released today ( Monday 11th Feb). As promised, released in three formats, CD, DVD and 7".
The CD has the two MOTS bonus tracks that were on the Japanese release of MOTS, namely Superstar and My Star 2001, and the video for the song. The DVD has the Tony Wilson interview in an edited form. The 7" is flipped with a live acoustic version of El Mundo Pequeno.

Fools Gold Live At The Hacienda and Madchester meets Glasgow.

Sally Cinnamon, performed by Fools Gold for the 24 Hour Party People movie is now up in Quick Time Movie format at the movie's official site. Go here for some stills, and a direct link to the movie.

Hot on the heels of the news of the clip on the site, comes a much anticipated announcement from Fools Gold.
Fools Gold, The Baggy Mondays, and an Inspiral Carpets tribute band are confirmed to play Glasgow barrowlands in a classic Madchester tribute night, on Saturday, march 23rd.

Mani to DJ at Screamadelica's 2nd Birthday Party.

Mani has been confirmed to appear at Screamadelica's 2nd Birthday bash at Temple Bar Music Centre in Dublin. The event takes place on 14th Feb 2002, two days before the TCSR gig in Dublin where Mani will also be spinning the tunes.

Fire at Ian Brown's management offices.

The building which houses the offices of Retaliate First suffered a fire on Saturday night (2.2.02).
Contrary to a report made in the NME, the RF offices and equipment were not damaged in any way.
The report hinted at the possibility of this causing a problem for Ian's tour, as much equipment needed for the tour was in the offices at the time.
Steve Lowes stresses that the incident poses no threat to Ian's tour, and everything will go ahead as scheduled.

Ian Brown Interview in The Guardian     

Ian is interviewed in The Guardian supplement 02/02/2002.

"I wasn't on stage to be worshipped or for people to look up to me. I was with the crowd. We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about. And they're still the biggest band in the world, so we failed. We didn't really do anything, people wore flares for a year or two, d'you know what I mean?" he laughs. "That's all we did."

Read the full interview here.

Complete Stone Roses announce new dates    

Tribute band The Complete Stone Roses have announced new UK and Ireland tour dates for 2002. The band, now with a completely new line up have their dates up at their website here.

See here for the press release.

Ian Brown Festival rumours.    

Steve Lowes has said on the message board at Ian Brown Online that he is in talks with this year's festival promoters. It was always a good bet Ian would do some festivals this year, but rumour has it, it may be Glastonbury..
See 'hidden messages' in the video for Whispers. ( If you can see them..! )

Aziz date in Manchester.   

Well, it's supposed to be a quiet one, but The Roadhouse fliers gave it away ( Thanx Anja..! )
Aziz has been asked to play as a guest for Brotherhood Of Slam at The Roadhouse in Manchester on Wednesday 30th Jan. Aziz will more than likely play an acoustic set on the night.

Ian Brown is nominated for a Brit Award and an NME award.

Ian has been nominated in the Best British Solo Male award, as well as Aphex Twin, Craig David, Elton John and Robbie Williams. Ian has also been nominated for 2 NME awards, Best Single for FEAR and Best Solo Artist.

Ian Brown and Aziz Ibrahim videos go online.

As promised, Aziz has put up videos from the recent few dates with Ian on his site.
A definate must see at Aziz's Website. 

Ian Brown third single..

Steve Lowes has confirmed Shadow Of A Saint will be the third single from Music Of The Spheres..
The video was directed by Ian himself again, and was shot amongst the Temples of Kyoto in Japan.

Whispers begins the rounds.

This week ( Mon 14th Jan..) See Whispers, the second single from Ian Brown's Music Of The Spheres, begin it's rounds on the radio and TV.
Mixed feelings have been aired regarding the video, which shows Ian pulling off his mystical kung Fu moves on video camera screens in shop windows in Tokyo..!

Aziz adds new date.

Wizard axemeister Aziz Ibrahim has added a date to the gig list on his website. Aziz will play a solo acoustic set on 20th January at The Cellar Ckub in South Shields.

More info at Aziz's website.

A New Year Message from Ian Brown.

Ian Brown posted a message on his website's message board at last. Elephant Stoned can confirm it's authenticity. Ian left several messages in one particular thread titled 2002 Good Luck.

There have been messages that say Ian Brown does not look at this board.
There have been messages that Ian Brown does look at this board, but refuses to comment.
There have been messages that Ian Brown both looks and posts on this board under another name.
Who knows what of the above is true.
Happy new year to you all. Thanks for everything. The truth is in front of you.
Love, Ian Brown.

Ian Brown Website.

Dave McCracken Leaves Live Line up.

A line up change has been made to Ian's band for the upcoming dates..Dave McCracken ( Keyboards ) has been replaced with Dan Bierton. Dan has worked with Ian for some time, and was responsible for the programming on the Manic Street Preachers Ian Brown Remix of Let Robeson Sing. Dave is leaving the live band to concentrate on his production jobs.